More Than Conquerors

“Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? shall tribulation, or distress, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword? 

As it is written, For thy sake we are killed all the day long; we are accounted as sheep for the slaughter. 

Nay, in all these things we are more than conquerors through him that loved us. 

For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to come, 

Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature, shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.” Romans 8:35-39

I loved to play “war” with ants and spiders as a kid. I would find a large glass jar or bucket and head over to the side of our house where it was dark and shady, and search for the spider webs. To catch one of these large spiders, I would find an ant or other small insect and toss it into the spider’s web, and wait. As soon as the spider came out to wrap up it’s new victim, I would quickly take a small twig and knock the spider into my bucket. 

After collecting my “champion,” I would head over to the nearby anthill to acquire enemies to fight. Just a quick poke of my stick into the anthill and immediately 5 or 6 ants would begin to climb onto this new threat. Quickly moving my stick over my bucket, I would shake the ants off and into the arena. Within seconds, the “war” had begun.

Because of the spider’s great size and strength, the ants had little time to live. They would run up to attack the spider, only to get immediately killed with a quick plunge of the spider’s fangs. The ants tried, but they were incredibly overmatched.

The account of David and Goliath greatly shows our Lord’s power. As a mighty man of war, the Philistine Goliath challenged Israel to send out a champion to fight him. Standing over 9 feet tall, Goliath must have been a terrifying sight to the Israelite army. No one would step forward to challenge him, until young David came one day to bring his brothers some food. Upon learning that no one would go and fight, David told the king that that day the Lord would deliver Goliath into his hand. David was not afraid; God had delivered him from many dangerous beasts before, and David knew that God would be on his side once again when he fought Goliath. With God at his side, David knew he couldn’t lose. With a single stone from a sling and the Lord God at his side, David conquered Goliath.

Conquer means “to defeat (as in combat); to subjugate; to overcome; to gain, win, or obtain by effort.”  

This present day, there is a constant war raging on: the war between good and evil. The devil is always fighting against the Lord and His servants, trying to do anything that he can to try to stop God’s Word from reaching people’s hearts. 

I believe that we are indeed in the end times right now. The wickedness out in the world is only going to become worse and worse, as more people refuse to turn to Christ. But for those a part of the army of God, we can remain strong. Persecutions may come, we may be hated because we believe in Jesus, we may even be killed for our faith in Christ, but we don’t need to be afraid. 

Jesus was persecuted, and as His followers we can expect the same. They may be able to kill our body, but they can’t kill our soul. The love of Christ fills us with strength and there is no one that can take that away from us. 

“So that we may boldly say, The Lord is my helper, and I will not fear what man shall do unto me.” Hebrews 13:6

There is nothing that can separate us from the love of God. Nothing! The devil may try to make us fall, as he did with Job, but just like Job, we need to remain stedfast in the faith.

“What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who can be against us?” Romans 8:31

Through Him we are more than conquerors. Christ is on our side!

In Christ,

Andrew